Tales From Lonely Mountain

A multimedia project, c. 2026

Music by Mokotow

Visual works by Noah Kalina and Dan Hayes

Tales From Lonely Mountain is a four-part multimedia exhibition combining Mokotow’s musical compositions with new visual works by Noah Kalina and Dan Hayes. Rooted in the western Catskills, the project reflects on solitude, seasonality, the quiet clarity that comes from the landscape recalibrating one’s balance.

The natural environment serves as the exhibition’s organizing structure. Three pieces by Dan Hayes—filmed in Livingston Manor, Roscoe and neighboring landscapes—draw directly from the terrain that shapes local experience. A fourth piece by Noah Kalina, created at Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland, introduces a complementary perspective: an atmospheric study of fog, wildlife, and observation that expands the project’s meditation on landscape and presence.

Community forms the final dimension. Viewers bring their own familiarity with these woods, roads, and seasonal rhythms, completing the dialogue between the work and the region that informs it.

The music carries the exhibition beyond the gallery. These compositions remain as a medium to revisit—through shifting seasons, moments of solitude, and periods of reflection—providing a continued connection to the landscape and the clarity it offers.

Written and recorded sixteen years ago and never released, these compositions found their purpose in the years they lived privately — and now, in their public release through this exhibition.